A question that is frequently asked in our practice is: What’s the difference between Revitalash and Latisse? We thought we’d show you a quick comparison of the two and what makes them different.
Revitalash
Latisse
Not FDA Approved
Is the only FDA approved eyelash growth
1 tube lasts about 6 months
1 box lasts 30 days
Makes your eyelashes longer and thicker
Makes your eyelashes longer, thicker and darker.
Individual will usually see significant results after 2 months of application.
Individual will usually see significant results after 2 months of application.
Does not contain prescription strength ingredients
Contains active ingredient bimatoprost (rx strength)
Great maintenance product once your lashes are to the desired length.
Recommended to use for at least 16 weeks to get desired results.
For a very limited time, our office is offering 2 boxes of Latisse for just $99.00. We have a very limited supply, so if you are interested in taking advantage of this amazing promotion, please stop by our office today or call us so that we can mail yours to you!
Latisse solution is a prescription strength liquid that is applied to the eyelashes nightly used to grow eyelashes, making them longer, thicker and darker. The onset of Latisse is gradual, but the typical person sees a significant change in eyelashes within 2 months. Latisse has been approved by the FDA and no longer requires a prescription written by your doctor.
Latisse is easy to apply. Once nightly, remove applicator from it’s tray. Then, holding the sterile applicator horizontally, place one drop of Latisse solution on the area of the applicator closes to the tip but not on the tip. Then draw the applicator carefully across the skin of the upper eyelid margin at the base of the eyelashes (where the eyelashes meet the skin). Dispose of the applicator after one use.
For additional questions, please call our office and speak with a member of our staff. They’d be happy to answer all of your questions regarding Latisse.
Now is the PERFECT time to get your cosmetic procedure done! For the month of January we are offering $250 off any procedure. That’s not all …
Receive FREE Botox or Latisse for you and a friend when you get Silicone implants!
Dr.Kjar, plastic surgeon, offers complimentary consultations to patients that are interested in talking about a particular procedure and has some questions. This is the best way to learn if a procedure is right for you and if you are ready to have cosmetic surgery. Call our office today if you are interested in scheduling a consultation 801.295.9105.
If you’re considering cosmetic surgery, it’s likely you’ve encountered false claims and horror stories during your research – botched operations, unscrupulous surgeons, terrible scarring. While there are risks involved with plastic surgery – which is the case with any type of medical care – they are minimal. The industry has been revolutionized, standardized and refined. Cosmetic surgeons are medical experts who have gone through extensive training and education to be qualified to perform operations. And many specialize in one type of cosmetic surgery, meaning their skills are even more specific and developed.
So, when you encounter myths, it’s important to recognize them as such. Here are five you can avoid.
1. If the cost of a cosmetic surgery seems high, you’re likely getting ripped off.
This is absolutely not the case, and you should never select a plastic surgeon simply because he or she offers the lowest price. You pay for expertise. You pay for safety. You pay for quality results. In fact, you should be wary of cosmetic surgeons claiming to offer bargains or the “lowest prices in town.”
2. Cosmetic surgery isn’t safe.
This is the most common plastic surgery myth. As aforementioned, there are risks involved with any type of operation, but cosmetic surgeries have become routine. During the 20th century in the U.S. alone, countless measures have been put into place to ensure cosmetic surgeries are as safe as possible. Advances in technology and surgeon training also help guarantee safety in the operating room.
3. Certification is certification. As long as I find a plastic surgeon with some sort of credentials, I should be alright.
You will be putting your welfare and physical appearance in the hands of a cosmetic surgeon, so you owe it to yourself to make sure he or she is the most qualified, experienced professional possible. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, there are several specific qualifications you should look for when researching cosmetic surgeons. Look for a surgeon who “has completed at least five years of surgical training with a minimum of two years in plastic surgery;” someone who “operates only in accredited medical facilities;” and someone who “fulfills continuing medical education requirements, including standards and innovations in patient safety,” notes the ASPS
4. The best plastic surgeon can guarantee no scarring.
Whenever an incision is made into the skin, some level of scarring can be expected. That’s the nature of the healing process, but experienced cosmetic surgeons are well versed in hiding and minimizing surgical scars.
5. Advanced dermal fillers and injectables can give me the effects of a face lift without the invasive surgery.
Botox, Juvederm and other injectables are excellent alternatives to invasive face lifts, but contrary to popular belief, they don’t give you the same results. Fillers can provide you with a more youthful look temporarily, but the surgical face lift is the only way to achieve permanent results.
If you are researching potential cosmetic operations and are having a hard time discerning truth from myth, speak with a reputable cosmetic surgeon in your area.
Taken from healthgnome.blogspot.com
Dr.Kjar is a board certified plastic surgeon who is highly trained in this specialty and very qualified to perform your cosmetic surgery. Board Certified Plastic Surgeons have at least 6 years of training and experience in surgery, with 3 years specifically in plastic surgery. Dr. Kjar operates only in accredited medical facilities, adheres to a strict code of ethics and puts patient safety first.
A great article was posted in USA Today talking about how state laws on in-office surgeries are so very lax! Only 21 states require the accreditation or licensing of offices where doctors perform surgery. Offices that are accredited or licensed must have certain life-saving emergency equipment and drugs, adhere to strict safety procedures. Utah is not one of them! See article below:
Dark green: Accreditation and/or licensure required; Light green: No state requirement; some states encourage accreditation but do not require it.
Source: The American Association for the Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgical Facilities
Source: The American Association for the Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgical Facilities
Three patients of a former Phoenix emergency room doctor died after having cosmetic surgery at his offices. That helped persuade the Arizona board of medicine to publish guidelines in early 2008 about the kind of training doctors practicing outside of their specialties need to be competent in the procedures they do. The doctor, Peter Normann, was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and one count of manslaughter and sentenced to 25 years in prison in September. He is appealing the conviction.As cosmetic surgery becomes more popular and lucrative, the temptation for physicians to branch into new, potentially risky procedures has never been greater, regulators, doctors and plaintiff lawyers say.
As cosmetic surgery becomes more popular and lucrative, the temptation for physicians to branch into new, potentially risky procedures has never been greater, regulators, doctors and plaintiff lawyers say.
North Carolina‘s medical board indefinitely suspended the license of ear, nose and throat surgeon Paul Drago’s license based on complaints from women who received “substandard” cosmetic surgery procedures and other evidence he was unfit to practice, according to the board’s consent order. The board also temporarily suspended the license of a general practitioner doing cosmetic surgery after becoming concerned about his cosmetic practice and finding evidence he operated on family members and prescribed drugs to himself.
The two cases influenced the board’s decision in March to adopt a position statement that says doctors who expand their practices will be held to the same standards as more extensively trained physicians and must ensure they have enough education and training.
States are starting to address the growing issue of what some call “practice drift” — physicians working outside of the areas in which they’re trained and board certified. In addition to Arizona and North Carolina, at least nine other states spell out in statutes that doctors have to be competent in any procedures they perform.
“This is on the radar of many state boards,” says Humayun Chaudhry, a physician and CEO of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB). “What doctors should or shouldn’t do when they change their area of focus is a concern for everyone.”
As cosmetic surgery surges in popularity and insurance payouts to doctors decline, the temptation for physicians to branch into new, potentially risky procedures has never been greater, regulators, doctors and plaintiff lawyers say. Insurance companies and hospitals typically prohibit doctors from practicing outside of their specialties, but office surgery facilities are unregulated in more than half of states. As interest in cosmetic procedures spreads outside of urban areas and coastal states, there are sweeping differences in state laws governing what kinds of surgeries doctors can perform and where.
“There are so many areas of medicine that are considered to be lucrative, that it’s attracted physicians to do those procedures who really aren’t trained to do them,” says Jim Leventhal, a Denver plaintiff attorney who chairs the American Association for Justice’s professional negligence section. “Laws need to be passed which regulate outpatient procedures requiring appropriate training to perform the procedure and appropriate training and equipment to respond immediately should a patient need emergency care.”
USA TODAY INVESTIGATION
PART 1: These women died after having liposuction. Their doctor wasn’t board certified – but their was no law to stop him.
In September, USA TODAY published a two-part series about the risky ways some doctors are responding to a growing demand for inexpensive cosmetic surgery.
Many are expanding unrelated practices, such as in obstetrics or radiology, into cosmetic surgery. Clinics that employ board-certified plastic surgeons have also been accused of downplaying the risks and aggressively marketing cheap alternatives to traditional plastic surgery. The series reported on some of the deaths and injuries — especially from liposuction — that have resulted from this commoditization of cosmetic surgery.
Earlier this month, the Florida Senate‘s health regulation committee unanimously approved a bill that would require spas that provide beauty treatments and liposuction to comply with existing laws and safety rules that govern other surgery centers. Committee Vice Chair Eleanor Sobel, a Democrat, said her bill “fixes a problem that allowed facilities to avoid safety protections and inspections by declining to offer anesthesia and instead using pills or injections.”
Practice drift into cosmetic surgery may be more pervasive, but it’s just one of “the problems in medicine whereby doctors — or non-doctors — are doing things they don’t have the training and experience to do,” says trauma and cancer surgeon James Hinsdale, immediate past president of the California Medical Association. He says doctors with hospital privileges to perform certain procedures will branch into others, such as laproscopic procedures, once in the operating room.
Only 21 states require licensing and/or accreditation of offices where surgery is performed. “With cosmetic surgery, procedures are almost always done in the office, often without necessary and appropriate arrangements for emergencies,” North Carolina medical board spokeswoman Jean Fisher-Brinkley says of the national problem. “Doctors who drift typically do not have hospital privileges to do the procedures they are doing in the office (so) if complications do arise, the doctor often cannot even accompany the patient to the hospital.”
Without strong state laws, the courts become the regulator, says Kansas City, Mo., plaintiff lawyer Dan DeFeo. Until states have greater uniformity in laws, physicians will just move to where there’s a demand and less oversight, he says.
Arizona’s practice guidelines listed cosmetic surgery, pain management and erectile dysfunction as the most common areas attracting non-specialists.
USA TODAY INVESTIGATION
PART 2: Critics say some low-cost, high-volume cosmetic surgery clinics are under so much sales pressure that they don’t sufficiently screen patients or do adequate follow-up.
Daniel Brookoff was an oncologist before he started practicing pain management in Denver. According to a lawsuit filed on her behalf, furniture chain owner Leslie Fishbein was treated for back pain by Brookoff and died of a heart attack after 30 injections of the powerful anesthetic Marcaine. The lawsuit charged the facility didn’t have adequate emergency equipment, staff or medications and that Brookoff was negligent.
Attorney Leventhal brought five cases against Brookoff and clinic owner HCA, including the lawsuit on behalf of Fishbein’s widower, Sam. After two of his patients died and three others suffered brain injuries, Brookoff committed suicide in April.
Brookoff’s attorneys confirmed the Leventhal lawsuits were settled out of court. In a response filed to Fishbein’s lawsuit before settlement, lawyers for Brookoff and HCA denied the allegations.
More than 50 patients claimed in a multi-plaintiff lawsuit that North Carolina ENT doctor Drago misrepresented his background, failed to use sterile equipment, let people who weren’t doctors perform liposuction and was negligent in surgery and anesthesia. A response filed by Drago’s attorneys said he met the “applicable standards of care.”
The case was settled out of court. Drago lost his license to practice medicine in North Carolina, but he is now a doctor in South Carolina‘s state prison system.
Disciplining doctors
State boards of medicine can discipline doctors who are doing procedures they aren’t qualified or trained to do or who are putting patients at risk in an unsafe office surgery facility. These practices can fall under sweeping prohibitions against unprofessional conduct or “substandard care,” says Lisa Robins, FSMB’s chief advocacy officer.
VIDEO: Risk of using doctors who aren’t board-certified plastic surgeons.
David Henderson, executive director of the North Carolina Board of Medicine, says violation of the board’s position statement “could constitute unprofessional conduct.” Still, while it’s time-consuming to get a law passed, it would likely expedite the disciplinary process. “Instead of bringing experts in to testify what the standards of practice or unprofessional conduct are, we could simply introduce into evidence a copy of the law,” Henderson says.
But Scott Kirby, a doctor and medical director of the North Carolina board, says a law restricting practice drift could stifle doctors’ abilities to innovate. He says the board more closely scrutinizes substandard care allegations about doctors practicing outside of their specialties.
Dermatologists Brett Coldiron and John Starling have been fueling the fight against laws requiring accreditation of office-based surgery, which they say is costly and could restrict care for patients. They say data on Florida and Alabama’s surgical complications show plastic surgeons — who are required to work in accredited facilities by their membership boards — have far more complications than other doctors performing cosmetic surgery. Starling acknowledges, there is no data on how many procedures are done, by plastic surgeons or surgeons in general.
If a state doesn’t have formal guidance or a law covering office-based surgery and the doctors who practice it, “more people are going to get injured,” says Sidney Wolfe, a medical doctor and director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group. “States should want to expand their existing authority.”
Some state efforts at regulation
Many state boards have adopted statutes, rules, policies and/or guidelines for the regulation of office-based surgery. According to the Federation of State Medical Boards, these changes focus on increasing safety during procedures by means including having enough trained personnel and “adequate malpractice insurance.”
Among state legislative and regulatory efforts:
New York. Bill would require that every facility operating as an office-based surgery practice or setting to have a certificate of registration along with a full accreditation.
Tennessee. Bill would require all cosmetic outpatient surgery clinics to be licensed and regulated by the state health department.
Florida. Would require doctors who perform office surgical liposuction and remove more than 1,000 cubic centimeters of supernatant fat to register with the Department of Health.
Alabama. Recently amended office-based surgery rules to require registration for doctors performing office-based tumescent liposuction procedures and procedures using propofol.
Washington. Final rules in January govern osteopathic physicians who perform surgical procedures and use anesthesia, analgesia or sedation in offices.
Dr.Kjar operates in only accredited surgical facilities. Patient Safety is his number one priority. Because it is not mandatory in the state of Utah for a doctor to perform surgery in an accredited medical facility, as a patient, do your homework and research the facility that you are having your procedure performed at. Several links are provided above that you can click on and follow to see if a facility is accredited.
We are excited to announce that we have the new Candela GentleMAX LASER! Advantagesof this Laser:
Virtually Painless
Versatility - Capable of removing unwanted hair, leg and facial veins, fine lines and wrinkles, vascular and pigmented lesions and skin laxity.
Fast - Fast treatment with fewer laser pulses.
Powerful - GentleMAX has speed and efficacy that no other machine has.
Treats All Skin Types - Dual wavelength capabilities gives this Laser the ideal settings so that any skin type can be treated.
Call our office today to speak with one of our Master Estheticians about this exciting new LASER. We offer complimentary esthetic consults. A Master Esthetician will meet with you and complete a skin analysis on your specific needs and desires. She’ll then go through all of your options with you. If you’d like to schedule a consultation, please contact our office.
For the next 12 days, our office is doing a really fun “12 days of Christmas Promotion”. For the next 12 business days, we will have a special offer EVERY SINGLE day. The offers are amazing and we are excited to give you this great gift right before the holidays. Remember that these are great stocking stuffers, great gifts for loved ones, or a great time to stock up on something that you’ve been wanting for yourself. We all want to look great just in time for those holiday parties!
It’s SIMPLE:
Browse through our calendar to see which deals you may want to take advantage of.
Make sure to call or visit our office that day to purchase that product or treatment. If you can’t make it in, call and pay for it over the phone and we’d be happy to ship it to your home for free.
There’s never been a better time to come in for Botox. Through the end of the year we are offering:
$50 off your Botox treatment. Now is the perfect time to get rid of your wrinkles for the holiday’s. Botox usually takes a couple of days to set in, so make sure to make your appointment today to look great for the holiday’s.
You can also receive an additional $75 off if you get Botox and Juvederm at the same time. Juvederm is a wonderful injectable that is a small gel that helps reduce wrinkles around your nose and mouth. Juvederm is also a great lip filler.
This additional offer is only good through November 30,2011.
So, you can receive $125 off Botox and Juvederm for a limited time!
Rules:
*Patient Must Purchase at least $200 worth of Botox
*Patient must register for the Brilliant Distinctions Program or send in a mail-in rebate for refund.
It’s the Season for pumpkins & spice – and something nice!
*Purchase an Ultra Peel and get a complimentary glo pumpkin scrub at home product. VIP newsletter members get an extra 20% off their peel.
*Revitalash Holiday Gift Box $150 includes (1) Revitalash Advanced Eyelash Conditioner (1) Volumizing Mascara in Raven color and (1) Volumizing Primer $(198 value)
*Purchase any product over $150 and get a complimentary eyebrow wax/design and tint ($45 value). Products include Revitalash, Latisse, Obagi, Jane and glo.
*Sculptra: $50 Rebates per vial (up to 3)
*Plastic Surgery Special: Purchase any cosmetic surgery procedure over $3,500 and get $250 off. Pay with cash and get an additional 2% off. Can not be combined with any other promotion. Can not be combined with CareCredit financing. $500 surgery reservation must be paid by November 30, 2011.
